(n.) A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.
(n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
(n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.
(n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
(a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
(a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
(a.) Made of buff leather.
(a.) Of the color of buff.
(v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
(v. t.) To strike.
(n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
(a.) Firm; sturdy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(2) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
(3) Most train yards have a washer system, which we call the "buff", that takes about 10 minutes to clean the whole train, and that's it – it goes back into service.
(4) In vitro autoradiography was used to compare the D-1 and D-2 receptor densities in brains from Buffalo (BUFF) and Fischer 344 (F344) rats.
(5) On Tuesday a piece called Art Buff appeared on a wall in Folkestone, Kent – another part of Britain where immigration is high on the political agenda.
(6) Former BBC 6 Music presenter Phill Jupitus said his departure was "something that, as a lover of music and radio buff, I had always hoped would never happen" .
(7) T. buffeli and T. orientalis also represented immunodominant antigens.
(8) In the past decade he has become known as the buff, handsome actor able to genre-jump: he has done comedies (Just Friends, Van Wilder: Party Liaison), horror (The Amityville Horror remake, which is memorable to his fans mostly because it featured Reynolds chopping wood topless), action thrillers (Blade: Trinity) and, in 2009, his breakout romcom The Proposal, in which he starred opposite Sandra Bullock.
(9) The present study suggests that T. sergenti should be separated from T. buffeli and T. orientalis on the basis of their serological dissimilarities.
(10) Its Genes Reunited site takes a much more mass-market approach than Find My Past, which is used by more "hardcore" genealogy buffs.
(11) It remains the achievement with which he is most often linked, except perhaps by movie buffs who admire the films that have preoccupied him over the past couple of decades: La Reine Margot , Intimacy , Gabrielle , Son Frère , Persécution , Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train .
(12) Elastase and buff-treated lobes were inflated cyclically with humidified air to a pressure of 20 cm H2O 6 times per min during a 16-hour period.
(13) Meanwhile, Dom (no relation) starts planning his own venture, a piri-piri chicken restaurant (drool), then goes cruising in a bath house where he meets Scott Bakula – hot off his Emmy-nominated performance in HBO's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra , and looking unfeasibly buff for a 59-year-old.
(14) Differences in veil constituents were found between T. sergenti, T. buffeli and T. orientalis.
(15) His father, Kim Jong-il , was a well-known movie buff who ordered the abduction of the South Korean director Shin Sang-ok in 1987.
(16) It was these roles that gave him a serious cachet among a generation of film buffs who became movie makers, such as David Zucker, who cast him in the comedy spoof Top Secret!
(17) The direct migration inhibition test with peripheral buff-coated leukocytes, is an easy and reliable correlate of delayed hypersensitivity to mycobacterial antigens in the human body.
(18) The news will come as no surprise to film buffs who for years have been playing the parlour game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which they link other actors to Bacon in six films or fewer.
(19) If he wants a seven-foot picture of a woman feeding a giraffe in the buff, he's probably going to get one.
(20) Test resin was allowed to polymerize, and then buff polished or treated by surface smoothing.
Scuff
Definition:
(n.) The back part of the neck; the scruff.
(v. i.) To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zusi rather scuffs his free kick, but he's involved again a minute later — getting to the byline and forcing another corner.
(2) Instead he scuffs the ball harmlessly wide when a firmer header would surely have put Ireland a goal up and levelled the tie on aggregate.
(3) By that stage United could have been three in front, for Martial should have scored when Rooney broke clear and unselfishly squared for his better-placed team-mate, only to see the teenager scuff his attempt at a tap-in and allow John Stones to get in the way.
(4) The France international should have scored when a long throw into the Liverpool area fell to the unmarked striker, but Gameiro could only scuff his volley straight at Mignolet who diverted over.
(5) Did Denis Bergkamp, or even Matt le Tissier, ever scuff it?"
(6) Ospina barely had to get a scuff of mud on his kit and Francis Coquelin demonstrated again that he is better suited for the defensive midfield role than Mikel Arteta.
(7) He almost had time to take a touch and shoot, but he swung his hips with the ball attempting a first time shot, and in doing so only managed to scuff it.
(8) He takes the ball down and scuffS it past Handanovic - but onto the left-hand post.
(9) But no repeat of his 2006 Mexican antics: he scuffs the volley, and Cillessen gathers a ball sailing serenely towards the top corner.
(10) He makes space for the shot on his right but scuffs it into the arms of Myhill.
(11) 58 mins French substitution: Christoph Dugarry (21) for Youri Djorkaeff 54 mins Thuram gets a beautiful cross on to the head of Trezeguet, who fails to connect properly in the Senegal box and scuffs it wide.
(12) Anyway, the striker should score, with only the keeper to beat, but he scuffs his shot, allowing Muslera to get something behind it.
(13) He lays it back to Gutierrez, who scuffs his shot wide from the edge of the area.
(14) The winger rounded McCarthy but presented with an open goal could only scuff a left-foot shot into the side-netting.
(15) 16 min Silva scuffs a shot straight at Benaglio from the left corner of the box.
(16) Having toyed with José Holebas on the right, Cuadrado threaded the ball across the Greece area, Rodríguez dummied beautifully and there was the left-back Armero to scuff a shot into the bottom corner via a deflection off Kostas Manolas.
(17) They came from on high, striking branch after branch on their descent as if they were playing pinball, making light scuffs and scrapes with each deflection.
(18) Barrantes again, but he seems to kick the snow as he takes the kick and scuffs the ball weakly to the edge of the box, where the US defense batter it...anywhere.
(19) The ball is played out to Milito in the right channel and he squares it to Maicon, who scuffs it past the challenge of one defender before poking past Valdes from about five yards.
(20) Silva, though, is put off by his team-mate and, rushing in behind, scuffs his shot somewhat.